Egypt is thoroughly pissed at Palestinians. Floods the tunnels with sea water making wells unusable

[docmauser1]

The Palestinian people imprisoned by the Israeli's in the worlds largest open air prison camp called Gaza. Have the right to supply themselves with items for survival regardless of what Egypt thinks about the issue.

Gazabadians have "survivalist" shopping malls for all their "survival" needs, of course.

Just like the Jews, Roma and Communists could use the canteens, brothel and stores at Auschwitz?

Behold, mortals, the gazabadian "Auschwitz"!! "One-stop shop for all your survival gear!"

 

[Phoenall]

The Israelis probably knew this trick, but through jewish obtuseness refused to do it.

Egypt has had it with the palestinians and just plain doesn't care. I am with the egyptians on this


"GAZA - Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt as the water rushed in.

They made it to safety during the flooding last week, but a network of Palestinian tunnels running under the frontier town of Rafah is now water-logged, destroyed by Cairo to sever what it says is a weapons smuggling route out of Gaza for Islamist insurgents in Egypt's Sinai desert.

For Bakeer, 61, the fact that Egypt, once a gateway to the world for Gaza's 1.8 million Palestinians, was behind his family's suffering, was particularly painful.

"We respect our neighbors, we love Egypt, but our neighbors are making our life harder," he said in his one-story unfinished cinder block house, around which water seeps and cracks in the ground are growing wider.

Egypt's pumping of salt water from the nearby Mediterranean into the tunnels is not only creating a mess as it rises to the surface. Palestinian officials say it is also contaminating water supplies as well as threatening to wreck farmland and spread disease.

Local residents say that at the peak of the tunnel business, after Hamas Islamists seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 and Israel tightened a closure of its crossings into the enclave, nearly 2,500 underground passages snaked under the border with Egypt.

The direction of traffic was mainly into Gaza. Commercial goods - and weapons smuggled in separate tunnels controlled by Hamas and other militant factions - flowed in defiance of what Palestinians and many of their supporters decried as neighboring Israel's siege.

In 2008-10, some tunnel owners were said to have become dollar millionaires as they shifted everything from Hummer vehicles and washing machines to cows and sheep through the underground system. Hamas imposed a tax on shipments.

At one point an estimated 22,000 Palestinians worked in the tunnel "industry". However, it shrank markedly in 2010 after Israel, under international pressure to ease restrictions on commercial imports into Gaza, allowed more goods in through its overland crossings.

Then this September, battling an insurgency in northern Sinai, Egypt decided to shut down the tunnels once and for all. Determined to halt what it said was an arms flow in the opposite direction, from Gaza to the militants, it cleared the area on its side of the border and began pumping water into the underground maze, collapsing the land.

Tunnel-builders said Egypt has pumped in water several times since September, and that over the course of a few weeks had done more damage to the network, which once accounted for an estimated 30 percent of Gaza's imports, than Israeli bombing had caused over the past two decades.

Now, the diggers said, fewer than 20 tunnels remain for commercial goods, with easy-to-smuggle cigarettes the main contraband. No one can, or will, say how many weapons tunnels remain - a secret that is guarded by Hamas and other armed groups, which last fought a war with Israel in 2014.

MUDDY MESS

What is left is an environmental mess, residents and local officials said, with the sea water polluting underground drinking reserves. The overflow has reached streets and homes within 100 meters (yards) of the border fence. Vast puddles and mud are everywhere.

"One cubic meter of sea water pollutes 40 cubic meters of underground water," said Tamer al-Sleibi, water department director in the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority in Gaza, who is concerned about long-term environmental damage.

Egypt's campaign, he said, could weaken the foundations of homes already on shaky ground due to tunnel-building and make land unfit for agriculture in areas near the frontier. There is also a health risk as the water turns stagnant, allowing mosquitoes and other disease carriers to breed.

Rafah Mayor Subhy Rudwan said the six wells that serve the city of 230,000 are threatened with contamination. "We are monitoring the situation along the border closely and we have noticed some collapses of ground in some areas," he said.

Last Friday, Rudwan said, Egyptian forces pumped in sea water from morning to night. "If they continue to do it, the lives and residence of people in the border area will be in danger, and they might be forced to quit their houses. We have appealed to Egypt to stop the flooding," he said.

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Now that is what I call real justice, and the pro pali's cant say a word about Egypt's treatment of the Palestinians . Time for Israel to dig a canal around gaza and flood it with sewage and then install fans blowing towards gaza

 

[Phoenall]

The illegitimate Egyptian government is the one causing the problems.

The majority of the Egyptian people side with the Palestinians. .........

Tunnels are illegal and Palestinians need to stop the smuggling and terrorism via tunnels.

Who made the Gaza tunnels illegal?.......the Israeli prison guards?? ........

No the UN who call them a war crime

AND ! WHAT IS YOUR POINT THAT IS UNSUBSTANTIATED ?

 

[Phoenall]

Egypt and gaza are not like EU nations, they don't have open borders. Gaza is not a state and does not have an agreement with Egypt.

Thus the tunnels are not illegal........Thanks ......

Yes they are and many International laws make them illegal, Aris gave you but 2 that cover their illegallity

 

[Phoenall]

The Palestinian people imprisoned by the Israeli's in the worlds largest open air prison camp called Gaza. Have the right to supply themselves with items for survival regardless of what Egypt thinks about the issue.

Gazabadians have "survivalist" shopping malls for all their "survival" needs, of course.

Just like the Jews, Roma and Communists could use the canteens, brothel and stores at Auschwitz?

Is that like the Jews claiming sanctuary in Catholic churches during the Inquisition ?

 

[eagle1462010]

Egypt has and continues to secure it's border....................

They have easily destroyed over a 1,000 tunnels by various means.........They have even created a no mans zone and have relocated the population along the border............................

Sissi is closing the border...............
Sissi has Outlawed the terror org the Muslim Brotherhood.....
Sissi has attacked ISIS killing Coptic Christians in Libya and elsewhere....
Sissi has rebuilt Churches that were destroyed by Islamic Revolutionaries.....
Sissi has executed members of Terror orgs..........
and etc..............

Sissi understands the Islamic terror groups are a danger to his country and his people......and is protecting his country and his borders from the same.........................he's spot on.

 

[aris2chat]

The Palestinian people imprisoned by the Israeli's in the worlds largest open air prison camp called Gaza.

Have the right to supply themselves with items for survival regardless of what Egypt thinks about the issue. .......

Hamas and gaza choose the path of violence. They are not working with the PA and won't recognize Israel. They are a threat and have illegal weapons that they use to attack Israel

Everyone is fed up with hamas' actions and unwillingness to come to a peaceful solution.

Childish temper tantrum.

No country gave hamas permission to tunnel into their land. Would you allow a rude and abusive neighbor to tunnel into your home?

Unless is it joint tunnel like under the channel between the UK and France, tunnels are illegal. Where is the permits and orders for hamas to build the tunnels? Who authorized them? When did egypt and israel give permission? Who said they could smuggle or wage covert attacks on either country? Why shouldn't Egypt and Israel destroy the tunnels? Hamas uses construction material that should go to building homes for the gazans or that belong to the UN.
Stolen material, illegal smuggling, not permits, use for attacks, illegal entry to another country.......................


ILLEGAL !!!!!!!


The tunnels are a threat to both Israel and Egypt. hamas and gazans to not have permission to enter either country.

Hamas control of gaza is illegal. Hamas is a terrorist group.

No way to make the tunnels legal.

If either country wanted gazans and supplies entering gaza, they would go through the authorized crossings.

Tunnels are illegal.

Supplies that are legal are entering and exiting through Israel.

Egypt has every right to do what is necessary to destroy the tunnels.